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Next Digital Decade

The Hub launched our two-part series, The Next Digital Decade: Case Studies from Asia, in 2021 to trace the impact of the internet on society, politics, and life in Asia with a unique emphasis on pandemic-era changes and issues from 2020-2021. 

The Ethics of Digitalisation: From Principles to Practice

The Ethics of Digitalisation: From Principles to Practice advances dialogue and action at the intersection of science, politics, digital economy, and civil society. Digitalization efforts are rapidly proliferating across sectors, prompting new and large-scale ethical challenges that arise from technological development and deployment that have important rights and justice implications.

Digital Infrastructures Project

India is on the path of rapid digitisation of its public service delivery infrastructure, ostensibly building on the country’s history of encouraging Open Source Software (OSS) use by the government. If built in a sustainable, rights respecting manner, on principles of openness, transparency, and accountability, digital public infrastructure can be immensely useful, and help reduce inequality in access to government services.

How to Resist Data Colonialism? Interview with Nick Couldry & Ulises Mejias

Interview with Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias by Teresa Numerico

Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

OUT NOW – Economies of Virtue – The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI

Theory on Demand #46
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI
Edited by Thao Phan, Jake Goldenfein, Declan Kuch, and Monique Mann

Blitzumfrage zur WM

Dass Fußballdeutschland mit dem zweiten WM-Vorrundenaus einer DFB-Elf in Folge – 2018 übrigens noch eine unrühmliche Prämiere für den vierfachen Weltmeister – nicht zufrieden ist, wird niemanden überraschen. Entsprechend einig sind sich hier auch die über 3500 Teilnehmenden der jüngsten Umfrage, bei der Professor Harald Lange vom Instituts für Sportwissenschaft an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg die Voting-App FanQ erneut als Experte unterstützt hat.

eSafety Commissioner releases position statement for recommender systems and algorithms

Professor Jean Burgess, Dr Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez and Louisa Bartolo from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society have provided expert insights on recommender systems to contri

Can ChatGPT make this podcast?

AI bot ChatGPT writes smart essays — should academics worry?

The Meta Oversight Board Has Some Genuinely Smart Suggestions

Future of Work/Play

Global discourse around technology adoption tends to focus on the future of the workplace and labour forces, especially after the pandemic-driven shift to online, remote, and AI-driven workmodes. This is an essential conversation, but in isolation, it might limit our understanding of the social harms or the generative potentials of new technologies.
The post Future of Work/Play first appeared on Digital Asia Hub.

Ranking Digital Rights

The Digital Asia Hub is partnering with Ranking Digital Rights to advance corporate accountability in South-East and East-Asia by ranking selected corporate actors for their commitments to human rights.

Prof. Katarzyna Śledziewska podczas TEDx University of Warsaw

Technologie cyfrowe, w tym rozwiązania oparte na sztucznej inteligencji zmieniają środowisko pracy – coraz częściej rutynowe zajęcia zastępowane są lub uzupełniane pracą wykonywaną przez inteligentne maszyny i systemy. Cyfrowa rewolucja powiązana jest jednak z inną poważną zmianą: rosnącą neuroróżnorodnością pracowników. Z czym wiązać będzie się ta zmiana? Jakiego rodzaju liderów potrzebujemy na rynku pracy i …

Musk boosts Twitter’s right-wing appeal with moderation changes, ‘Twitter Files’

Self-Regulating Platforms and Anti-Trust Justice

#110 Kres podziału na humanistów i ścisłowców

Z dr Agatą Komendant-Brodowska i dr Anną Baczko-Dombi (Wydział Socjologii UW) o uczeniu modeli matematycznych.
Artykuł #110 Kres podziału na humanistów i ścisłowców pochodzi z serwisu DELab Uniwersytet Warszawski.

Call for Participation: Researcher Access in the Digital Services Act (Deadline 16 January 2023)

Leibniz-Preis für Claudia Höbartner

Es ist wie ein sehr großes, vorgezogenes Weihnachtsgeschenk, über das sich die Würzburger Chemikerin Claudia Höbartner freuen kann: Die Professorin erhält einen der renommierten Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Preise der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), verbunden mit einem Preisgeld von 2,5 Millionen Euro. Das gab die DFG am 8. Dezember 2022 bekannt.

Experience some of the world’s most beautiful places with Wiki Loves Earth 2022

Think about that feeling you get when you are walking through pristine nature. Do you think it can be captured in a single photo? 

The Wiki Loves Earth photography competition celebrates the world’s natural heritage, encompassing everything from small parks to massive nature reserves. It asks photographers to dive into those areas to pick out a little slice of nature, whether mundane or extraordinary, and share it with the world.